Courtesy of NASA’s Earth Observatory, here’s a look back at twenty of the most striking images of our home planet as seen from orbit in 2012.
Jessie Wender, formerly a photo editor at The New Yorker, is a senior photo editor at National Geographic.
More:NASA
Goings On
What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks.
The Weekend Essay
The “Epic Row” Over a New Epoch
Scientists, journalists, and artists often say that we live in the Anthropocene, a new age in which humans shape the Earth. Why do some leading geologists reject the term?
By Elizabeth Kolbert
The Current Cinema
“Civil War” Presents a Striking but Muddled State of Disunion
Kirsten Dunst plays a war photographer in the trenches of Alex Garland’s speculative dystopian thriller.
By Justin Chang
This Week in Fiction
Joyce Carol Oates on Life as a Mystery
The author discusses her story “Late Love.”
By Deborah Treisman
The Theatre
The Avant-Garde Is Back on the Launchpad
The Wooster Group gives the Richard Foreman play “Symphony of Rats” its signature spins.
By Helen Shaw